Chemical Sciences in the Modern World /

Chemical Sciences in the Modern World / / ed. by Seymour H. Mauskopf.

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the chemical sciences to the modern world. In the last 150 years, they have transformed our physical environment, our material culture, our manner of living, and even our persons-and they are continuing to do so in profound ways. Yet the detail...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Abir-Am, Pnina G.,
Brandt, E. N.,
Bud, Robert,
Friedel, Robert,
Hamlin, Christopher,
Hiebert, Erwin N.,
Holmes, Frederic L.,
Jensen, William B.,
Kohler, Robert E.,
Lesch, John E.,
Mauskopf, Seymour H.,
Nye, Mary Jo,
Rabkin, Yakov M.,
Rocke, Alan J.,
Samuels, Helen W.,
Servos, John W.,
Smith, John Kenly,
Warnow-Blewett, Joan,
White, Suzanne,
HerausgeberIn:
Mauskopf, Seymour H.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©1994
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Reprint 2016
Language:English
Series:Chemical Sciences in Society
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Chemical Sciences in the Modern World
  • I: Practice
  • THEORETICAL
  • Philosophies of Chemistry Since the Eighteenth Century
  • TECHNICAL
  • Uses and Images of Instruments in Chemistry
  • Systems of Production: Drosophila, Neurospora, and Biochemical Genetics
  • SOCIAL
  • The Quiet Revolution of the 1850s: Social and Empirical Sources of Scientific Theory
  • Justus Liebig and the Construction of Organic Chemistry
  • Part II: Production
  • The Evolution of the Chemical Industry: A Technological Perspective
  • Chemistry and Biomedicine in an Industrial Setting: The Invention of the Sulfa Drugs
  • Defining Chemistry: Origins of the Heroic Chemist
  • Part III: Public Interface
  • CHALLENGE TO PRESERVE
  • Documenting Modern Chemistry: The Historical Task of the Archivist
  • Two Useful Tools for Documentation Strategies: Historical and Documentation Research
  • CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC OUTREACH
  • History of Chemistry and the Chemical Community: Bridging the Gap?
  • The Museum, Meaning, and History: The Case of Chemistry
  • CHALLENGE TO PUBLIC POLICY
  • Between Knowledge and Action: Themes in the History of Environmental Chemistry
  • The Chemogastric Revolution and the Regulation of Food Chemicals
  • The Chemical Industries and Their Publics: How Can History Help?
  • IV: Prospects
  • The Prospect from Here
  • Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered
  • Women in Research Schools: Approaching an Analytical Lacuna in the History of Chemistry and Allied Sciences
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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